British Airways Delays/ Cancellations

[JessicaTam]

Tuesday 13 December 2022 sees BA15, the redeye from SIN down to SYD (B773ER G-STBM) arriving at an expected 0807 hours, 72 minutes late.

It doesn't often become unpunctual.

Hey @Melburnian1, long time no see. Welcome back.

 

[Melburnian1]

Hey @Melburnian1, long time no see. Welcome back.

Funny you posted that as I was just looking at BA15 that for a second time is delayed, with today's coming in to its SYD gate at 0837 hours, 102 late after holding just north of Goulburn. Aircraft is B773ER G-STBO.

Extremely unusual for this flight to run anything more than a few minutes late, so to have 'two in a week' is rare.

(As posted elsewhere, was overseas - Europe/Asia - for many weeks, and then decided to have a break from AFF for a while).

 

[TonyHancock]

BA 16 scheduled for the 12th Dec delayed for 15 hours - it left at 8:07 on the 13th. The inbound aircraft, BA15, was delayed leaving LHR, an issue at the gate that could not be fixed quickly according to the BA16 crew.

EU261 submitted and awaiting to see how BA plays it - will be an expensive flight for them. (A lot of peeps on BA16 staying at Rydges at SYD on the 12th Dec - at BA's expense too.)

(edited - wrong post quoted)

 

[Melburnian1]

Goodness gracious, another delay for BA15, which should arrive SYD this morning at 0813 hours, 78 minute slate with B773ER G-STBP.

The problem is that on a few recent occasions, the first sector has taken off from LHR, for example, 130 minutes after the scheduled 2135 hours pushback.

I can't recall in all the time I've contributed to this AFF subsection that BA has ever run this late so often to Oz.

 

[Melburnian1]

It's no surprise that one individual cannot monitor every flight that departs or arrives in Oz.

However, amazingly, BA16, which I recall pre-COVID as almost never late from a reasonably large sample, is again tardy on Tuesday 20 December, with B773ER G-STBJ not airborne until 1903 hours on this 1630 hours scheduled pushback affair. SIN arrival should be 2345 hours, 135 minutes tardy.

BA15 is constantly departing London Heathrow late, probably due to the arctic-like conditions the UK has had some days, and it all seems to snowball from there. I assume mandatory crew rest times contribute at times, although one would expect that pilots and cabin crews alike would have a layover in Oz of at least 1.5 days (i.e. not going back on the next day's flight) and probably similar in Singapore.

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In late September to early October 2022, I was in the UK, including London some days, and by and large the weather was sunny, and benign: how 10 weeks makes a difference!

 

[TonyHancock]

BA15 is constantly departing London Heathrow late, probably due to the arctic-like conditions the UK has had some days, and it all seems to snowball from there. I assume mandatory crew rest times contribute at times, although one would expect that pilots and cabin crews alike would have a layover in Oz of at least 1.5 days (i.e. not going back on the next day's flight) and probably similar in Singapore.

Hopefully things will get back to normal now - the cold snap has come to an end. I suspect LHR was just not prepared for nearly a week of sub zero temperatures.

 

[Melburnian1]

Hopefully things will get back to normal now - the cold snap has come to an end. I suspect LHR was just not prepared for nearly a week of sub zero temperatures.

What would Griselda think? (You are the wittiest contributor on AFF).

 

[turnipapple]

It's no surprise that one individual cannot monitor every flight that departs or arrives in Oz.

However, amazingly, BA16, which I recall pre-COVID as almost never late from a reasonably large sample, is again tardy on Tuesday 20 December, with B773ER G-STBJ not airborne until 1903 hours on this 1630 hours scheduled pushback affair. SIN arrival should be 2345 hours, 135 minutes tardy.

BA15 is constantly departing London Heathrow late, probably due to the arctic-like conditions the UK has had some days, and it all seems to snowball from there. I assume mandatory crew rest times contribute at times, although one would expect that pilots and cabin crews alike would have a layover in Oz of at least 1.5 days (i.e. not going back on the next day's flight) and probably similar in Singapore.

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In late September to early October 2022, I was in the UK, including London some days, and by and large the weather was sunny, and benign: how 10 weeks makes a difference!

I've been following BA15 as well as it's my last leg to get home. Interesting info thank you

 

[Melburnian1]

BA15 on Friday 23 December 2022 (B773ER G-STBO) is arriving SYD at an estimated 0735 hours, 40 minutes behind schedule.

 

[Melburnian1]

Fog was predicted for Monday 26 December 2022's morning in SYD, and seems to have affected arrivals until QF44 from DPS was able to land at 0647 hours.

BA15, the Christmas night 2010 hours SIN-SYD took off at 2053, about 20 minutes late with B773ER G-STBK. On Boxing Day, as at 0701 AEDT it was holding above Singleton NSW as there was naturally a queue of arriving aircraft, many international, endeavouring to enter SYD. FR24 suggests it will arrive at 0732 hours, 37 late, and while I was accessing that resource, it changed from '0725 landing time' to '0727', so as often in such a situation, a bit fluid.

UPDATE: By 0715 hours AEDT, BA15 had emerged from that hold, but predicted at gate arrival had further changed to 0740 hours, 45 late.

FURTHER UPDATE: BA15 landed at 0738 hours so allowing an arbitrary five minutes to get to its gate, arrival will be 0743, 48 late.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Sunday 22 January, BA15, the often extremely punctual SIN-SYD due out at 2010 hours did not take off until 2158. B773ER G-STBG should arrive SYD on Monday 23 at around 0818 hours, 83 minutes late.

It's only a couple of minutes behind SQ221 that is 33 minutes late, so was there a problem at Singapore airport last night or is this just a coincidence?

 

[Melburnian1]

BA15 from SIN to SYD and BA16 in the other direction are extremely reliable.

Rarely is either late. Cancellations are almost unknown.

However the 5 September 2024 second leg of this operation (which originates at LHR) doesn't appear to have operated overnight, as from what one can see, B789 G-ZBKG terminated in SIN at 1741 hours, four minutes early, on Thursday 5.

Hence BA16, the 1440 hours SYD-SIN-LHR is cancelled on Friday 6 September.

 

[Melburnian1]

On Friday 13 September (funny about that), BA15, the 0510 hours arrival in SYD from SIN and earlier from LHR, together with Ba16, the 1440 hours afternoon service ex SYD, are cancelled.

What would Griselda think , @TonyHancock ?